Word: angstful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times throughout the movie, the couple is pitted in conflicting roles concerning the strain of raising, and letting go of, Carla. This scenario is very real in such a complicated situation but unfortunately its importance is downplayed. The struggles are continually dissolved in a similar manner and without much angst. The personality of each character is no monotonously predictable and underdeveloped that the talents of Keaton and Skarritt are wasted upon them...
...suffering in its purest form--when people die, they die violently and horribly. Good is corrupted, and evil abounds. There is no redemption. There are no happy endings. It is an incredibly dark vision but one that is undoubtedly held be Walker, the former Tower Records clerk-turned-angst-ridden-screen- writer, who must have kept of a copy of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan handy when he sat down to write his first film, Seven, and his new one, 8MM. Both films share an incredibly bleak outlook of the human condition, and while these visions are certainly helped...
These days, as a musician, you know you've made it when you have had a song featured on a WB teen angst drama. Stretch Princess are one of the lucky few whose creations have underlined a pregnant moment on Dawson's Creek. "Lost on Me" is that tune, one barely distinguishable from the rest of the now mainstream alternative ditties which grace their self-titled debut album. Kurt Cobain is perpetually rolling over in his grave for the embarrassingly bland rip-offs of the genre he spawned...
...front of the camera. In comparison, Laney Boggs is a mere prop to his masculine narrative. In both screen time and plot weight, Prinze's character receives much more emphasis than any other. The scrawny effort to inflate his persona, with the injection of an overbearing father and the angst of being too overachieving, is pitiful--but Prinze carries it off with a demeanor that cries, "Who needs a viable screenplay with a face like this...
Noam Weinstein '99 opened the night with a diverse collage of six original songs. An unremarkable-looking college kid on his soapbox in a T-shirt and sneakers--no rage, no angst, no gimmick--Weinstein had nothing to sell him but a voice and a talent. But once he started, he transported the audience in the packed cafe to another musical plateau where his expansive skill and solid music flooded...